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pRIVATE N BUSIESS IDAY OF PARMA MENT.-(FR.) COMMITTEE ON BILL (WEST SCOTLAND LIST.) Lord WILLIAM 13nsorrecx in the Chair. Edinburgh and Glasgow Beltway Bill.—On the opening of the Corn. =Wee this morning, Mr. Hoes proceeded to recapitulate those parts of the evidence, from the last years' Report of the Committee, which were thought requisite, (instead of going through the whole) as settled yester day. These extracts of evidence chiefly related to the estimated capital, expenses, revenue, traffic, &c. of the Railway. Mr. Hors contended, after going through a variety of items of account, that the estimated traffic upon the railway, according to the shewing of the evidence before the last year's Committee, did not afford a prospect of paying more than 4 per cent. upon the capital of the shareholders. Mr. Joe then addressed the Committee, saying he hoped it would be soonsidersd that he had kept faith with the parties for the Bill, in having produced the condensed evidence from the last year's report, which had been promised yesterday. His Learned Friend (Mr. Hope) effected a great saving in the time of the Committeee, by the very able manner in which he had compressed such evidence. The Noble CHAIRMAN said he had been struck with the noble man. ser in which Mr. Hope had executed the task. After the reading of the evidence of Mr. W. S. Gilpin, a landscape gardener, who hrd stated in answer to a question from Mr. Joy, that a man who wculd project such a line of railway as this through a gentle. man's property, cannot respect his duty towards his neighbour—he cannot be a Christian—that is impossible. Mr. Joe' addressed the Committee against the Bill. In commenting upon the evidence from the last year's Report, the Learned Counsel said he should be most happy to give his friend Mr. Andrews, on the other side, ten guineas for every Member who had read such Report, if he would give him one guinea for every Member who had not. Mr. Joy enlarged upon the fact of Hon. Members not having read such evidence, and he now asked the Committee whether this was the mode in which they thought the property f individuals was to be used by the strong arm of the law —by the omnipotence of Parliament ? Such a case was hard 'and cruel in the extreme. The important fact could not be denied tbat it had been more than hinted that many Hon. Members had not Teed one word of such evidence. He, Mr. Joy, did not wish to repeat any strong term he might have used upon this fact ; but, he would re spectfully ask of the Noble Chairman (who formed an exception to his remark, as his Lordship had last year, as well as this, paid the closest attention to the matter), he would ask, could anything be " a greater farce ?" The Learned Gent. then adverted to the singular fact that the chief subscribers to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway were residents in Liverpool and Manchester! Now he did not mean to say that such subscribers might not prove the undertaking worth something or a great deal ; but he, Mr. Joy, contended that a more weighty interest, evinced by a larger subscription, should have been proved by his Learned Friends to have existed in the Cities of Edinburgh and Glas govr. Amongst the advantages attendant on the undertaking it had been aeserteel by the supporters of the Bill that writers who resided in Glasgow might set off to attend the Courts in Edinburgh on the very day their causes were caning on. Now this was absurd, as every. body well knew that it wad absolutely necessary for every writer or attorney to be at the elbow of his counsel much sooner than on the day of hearing. He, Mr. Joy, would not waste words on that ; but would merely add that this was the strongest point insisted upon in the case of his Hon. Friends in support of the Bill. Moreover, he, Mr. Joy, was sorry to observe that in this and other Rail-road Bills, the custom—which was a French custom, not an English one—ap peared to be, that wherever the cry of " public utility" was raised, all considerations of private property, and the comforts and advantages attending it, were to be forthwith lost sight of. This was the case under despotic governments, hut could never apply to that of this country. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to argue generally against the Bill, especially impugning the line. Ile would say, that his Learned Friends had enveloped this caee in " a Scotch mist," which, it was said, would wet an Englishmen through, and he must confess, as an unfortueate Englishman, he had been completely saturated by it. However, he trusted, by great exertion, to be enabled to " chase the heavy dew away." The fact in evidence yesterday could not be forgot ten that parties who had subscribed by attorney, had a second time sub scribed pi rsonally, and that, consequently, their subscriptions were in serted twice over in the list, carrying upon the face of them, if not the intention, at all events, the appearance, of a false pretence. Such an an appearance produced, on examination, a discrepancy of no less than the difference between severity thousand and thirty thousand pounds. If this discrepancy were not explamed in the first subscription list, surely it might have been done in the second. His Learned Friends had come before this Committee with any thing but a clear case; and instead of being enabled to divest it of obscurity, they had turned round upon him, and accused him of wishing to waste the time of the Com mittee. The Learned Counsel strongly denied this, and hoped that such Members of the Committee—and such only—as had read, or heard read, the evidence, would decide upon the merits of this question; as regarded the subscription lists, the parties for the Bill had played fast and loose. They hail, in short, rehearsed a farce. This farce, it was true, had only yet exhibited one act ; and he, Mr. Joy, trusted that the remaining ones, before another tribunal, would not he allewee to proceed. The Learned Gentleman': speech, which took tip the time of the Committee until it was recmsary to adjourn, owing to the same Com. mittee li.t having to sit to-day upon the Glasgow Waterworks, (Nan eluded be enforcing the truth that a very great and overwhelming public benent rest be proved to be the result, before any injury to private pro perty ran be elbowed to lee perpetrated. The strangest proof of neces sity most be had; and the stalking-horse of public necessity must not be a :owed recommit the flagrant injustice cm:tempi:sted by this Bill. Mr. Aereaews. in reply, disclaimed all idea of entering into length ened deal. His Learned Friend, Mr. Wood, had rendered that unneces sary. He (Mr. samlrews) woutd rely upon the forts of the evidence prodused before the Committee, and the Report of last year. lie, there_ lore, left the case cheerfully - in the hands of the Committee. Mr. Mtetros then produced a list cf the ass, nts, diesent3, and neuters, along the proposed line, and the room was then cleared. On our return to the room, the CHAIRM AN announced that the Com mittee had decided that the preamble was proved. The Not lv Chairman and several Members of the Committee then left the room to attend the Committee on the. Glasgow Waterworks Bill, and Mr. Gibson Craig took the Chair for the Noble I.2rd. It was then agreed, after so - ne discussion, that only the undisputed clauses :mil resolutietta should be gone into for the remainder of to-day ; but u.timatety the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. CO:,IMITTEE ON BILL (WEST SCOTLAND LIST.) Lord Wm. EENTricti in the Chair. GLASGOW WATERWORKS BILL. Three several petitions - ,vere read against the Bill, but no one ap. peered sa counsel or agent in support of tlem. Mr. 31'Cane, Secretary and Engineer to the Cranston Hill Com pany, uas then examined by Mr. Sergeant t3pankie as to the amount of dent of tit! Company. Witticss stated the aetual clear debt of the Com pany to be 70,000/. By the present Bill it was proposed that the Com pany should have the p.,wer of raising 100,0004 ; the capital is to be 3.")0,000/. ; does not know how many shares this sum is held ; the Company has 6,800 and odd shares disposed of. The engines of the works are geed ; they work, Weil supplying the distilleries, about eighteen hours a day. l'he reserveirs are large, and consequently require a great dell of water. The engines sometimes work whilst the pcoVe are in bed, and a great dell of the water is stolen. The great reservoir is about eighty.faur feet ebove the level of the Clyde. The average supply from the reservoir is, for nui teen hour—viz , from she o'clock in thernorn ing to eight o'clock at night; bnt, at only a little above the level of the at, ts, they have a supply of water all night. Some of the water rate payers eomplain of a short supply ; in some instances such complaints are too welt founded. To put on additional power of engines would be very ee pensive. The remainder of this witness's evidence also related to the supply afr,rded to the inhabitants, and the rates they paid, which varied ac cording to the different levels upon which their houses were situated. The witness produced and put iu a statement of a gra luated scale of the present charges for water, as compared with the charges intended by this Bill. The room w. 3 clearrd upon a question of evidence, in cross_examina_ tior', in which the Witi.,S4 was asked by Mr. 31`Nell construction of a parli::::lar part of an Act of Parliament. The t. stomas announced tile decision of the Committee, that the quest.un could not be pot. A di wussion of some longth to.,:c place, as to whether the witness, as Fes•vtery to the Company, should produce the hocks of account, end cer tain docu. - ncrits, relative to a former intention of arrangement, or pur chase and sale, betwnn the Clasgow and Cranston-hill Companies. Mr. Ardrewi, for the Bill, and Mr. M'Siel, the Scottish Advocate, against it, subsequently agreed that such books and documents should be produced in evidence. Another discussion arose as to the admissibility of a question by Mr. Itl`Neil, relative to an opinion of Counsel given to the promoters of the Bill. The derision of the. Committee, without clearing the room, was against the question. The Committee then adjourned until 12 o'clock nezt Tuesday. NECROPOLIS CEMETERY BILL—(MIDDLESEX LIST.) Mr. PaiLLporrs in the chair. Mr. Sydney, civil engineer, was examined by Mr. Movnt.—Witness nine years since surveyed the ground for a lunatic asylum. Very hie. legible for a Necropolis. Every grave would be a cesspool of water. Saw the soil clay. Impossible to drain it. After a few questions put to this witness, as also to Mr. Knowles, undertaker, and Mr. Hunt, sexton, of Hampstead, the room was cleared, when at 3 o'clock the Corn. mittee decided that the preamble Was not proved—consequently the Bill is lost. On Thursday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, as a young lady named Amelia Harland, residing with her friends in Judd-place South, New-road, was cross ing opposite to St. Pancras Churo to Euston-square, she was knocked down and run over by one of the Paddington omnibuses. The fore and hind wheels i.alsed over both her arms below the &bow, severely lacerating the flesh, and crushing the bones to splinters. The unfortunate young lady was removed in a state of extreme suffering to her parents' re sidence. A shocking accident occurred on Friday morning to a young man named James Carroll, footman in the service of Mathew Gilbert, Esq., of Baker -street, Portman-square. The man, it seems, had obtained permission to accompany his cousin (a soldier in the Goldstream Guards) on his march to Hounslow, and remained there until a late hour drinking. On his return to town, wishing to obtain entrance at his master's house without arousing the family, he endeavoured to scale the area railings, but his foot sliping, be fell direct on the spikes and remained impaled until released by some labourers pro ceeding to their work. The unfortunate man was conveyed in a bleeding and insensible state to the hospital. HUMAN REMAINS.—A few days ago, while some work people were employed planting young trees, in a field called Kiln Hole, near Thurland Castle, belonging to Richard Toulmin North, Esq., they discovered two human skeletons about eighteen inches below the surfuce of the ground. About five or six years ago, a skeleton was found near the same place. How long the remains may have lain there, no one pretends to say. It is supposed that this place was one of the Roman stations.—Kendal Mercury. In a trespass case tried in the Nisi Prius Court on Tuesday, one witness said that he hung his coat upon an apple tree, and on pulling it by the tail the tree fell down. Another witness was asked what became of the tree, and he said he saw it lying by the hedge for a fortnight, when it disappeared ; be did not know whether the woodpeckers (pickers) carried it off or not. A third witness was questioned as to the roots of the tree being cut away, and be said the roots were not de stroyed till the lawyer and another gentleman came down, and whether they did it, or whether the pigs rooted up the tree, he could not tell.— Western Luminary. Friday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, .1 Imes Miles, footman in the family of Praed, Esq., of Great Coram-street, Russell-squaro, was standing outside cleaning the back parlour window, when he by some means let go his hold, and tell backwards on the flag stones of the yard. He was taken up in an apparently lifeless state, and con veyed to the University College Hospital, when it was ascertained that his skull was so dreadfully fractured that his life is despaired of. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (SATURDAY.) (From our Second Edition of Saturday.) HULL The Committee met at eleven o'clock, when the examination of Mr. Moxon was again proceeded with. He stated, after considerable hesitation, that he kept the accounts at the Shakspeare, and made some payments, but not until after the election. The only payments he cou'd recollect were for broken windows and flag.staffs and colours. He paid the money out of hie own pocket. The only money which he was repaid was IN. by Mr. Clifford Pease. On the morning of the election a breakfast was given at the Shakspeare, of which the canvas. sera and runners partook. The breaktast was ordered by himself, but he had not yet paid for it, nor had he been applied to on the subject. if Mr. Allinson had applied to him, he should have referred to the General Committee in Scale-lane. He had heard of a steamer being victualled from the Shakspeare, but did not know anything of it person ally. Jacob Sissona went to the Committee-room, and had his name put down. He was not employed by witness that he was aware of. Mr. Thomas Todd, engraver, examined by Mr. WOOD, was Clerk for the !lumber Ward Committee at the last election. Mr. Ullathorne was Chairman and 3fr. Moxon, Deputy Chairman. After the election was over two non-freemen were paid in the room. They were employed as runners. Another person was employed, named Croft. He is a free man. The day of the election was a day of tumult altogether. At about a quarter past three Mr. Hill began to sum up the evidence, submitting that this was such'a case of treaty as constituted bribery, and therefore that the vote of Jacob Sissons ought to be struck off. The Learned Gentleman had not concluded his address at four o'elock, when the Committee adjourned. SHAFTESBURY. Mr. THEiS!GEE replied, on the part of Captain Mathews, in a speech of upwards of two hours. The Committee, after remaining in deliberation from one till past four, decided that Captain Mathews was duly elected, but they adjourned to Monday (this day) to make a special report. MARKET INTELLIGEN CE. (From the London New Price Current of Friday evening.) SUGAR.-We have again to report an improving Market for West India Muscovades ; both grocers and refiners purchase freely, payieg an advance since this day week of Is. to Is. 6d. for both both brown and yellow descriptions, making the advance from the lowest point of the Market 2s. ; sales of Berbice of good dry brown quality made at 565. kid., St Lucia rather batter 575., Demerara low mid. yellow 599. to 595. 6d., good 61s. 64., Jamaica low mid. 595. to 595. 6c1., Dominica fine grey for refining 635. The Refined Market has assumed a more lively andfirmer appearance; 775. paid for Lumps passing, and '7ss. for those rather under the stan dard ; a fair extent of business has been transacted in double Crushed at 355. to 355. ed., and further purchases could not be made but at the latter price. MAURITIUS.-The demand has been very good from the grocers, and an advance on last week's rates of Is. has been established ; very fine yellow at 645. 6d.; fine 61s. 6d. to 629.. good mid 595. 6d. to 60a. 6d., ord. to low mid. 569. 6d. to 575. 6d., ord. soft grey 365. 6d. to 375. This afternoon the demand continued very good ; reAning sorts sold 64. dearer, and a❑ found buyers, good strong grey at 395. Ed. a 605., mid. 58s. tid. a 595., fine yellow 61$. a 035., mid. to good 58s. a 605.; strong brown 57s a 575. 6d. per cwt. EAST INDIA.-Prices of Siam have receded Is. to Is. 6d., mid. white at 325., good yellow 2119., damps of the former 281. 6d. to 325. Gd., washed 265. 6d. to 325., good strong white at 335. 6d. to 34s.,mid. 3`.21. to 329. 6d., low mid. 305., good yellow '2Bs. to 295. ; Manilla is held for former rates at 225, 6d. with a short prompt ; 991 bags offered at auction wore all bought in at 229. to 9.31. for good mid, brown, and wet at l!rlowsss.—West India have been in good demand since our last. The purchases amount to 440 puns. good mid. and good Demerara at 28s. to 2.95. per cwt. COFFEE.—The British Plantation market presents a very dull and de clining appearance, at a decline on former rates of 35. a 41. Berbice, low mid. at gss a 1003., good mid. 1038. a 1055., fine ord. 855., bold triage 01s. a 995. Ceylon for home consumption at a reduction on former rates of 3s. a Is., gocd ord. selling at 775. a 775. 6d. Sumatra at auction sold at 363. 6d. for good ordinary. Mocha has not supported its former currency; good yel:ow 013. 6d. a 955., mid, pale 101 s. 6d., fair urd. 80s. a 863. . . . . . SPICES —West India Ginger is in limited demand , mid. to good white at 102 s. to 1425. ; East India is held with less firmness; Bengal sold at 255. to 275. Holders of Black Pepper will not submit to easier prices. Sumatra at auction bought iii at 4d. for good light, 3 :id, was offered ;70 bags Long also taken in ar 30s. Of Pimento none has been offered at public sale. Rica.—For East India the demand is still very moderate, and prices have receded fid. per cwt. : Java sold at 123. to 12s. 6d. for very good white; Bengal at 13s. 6.1. to 14s. ; Madras Paddy sold at 4s. tid. for good quality. Carolina has secured a fair sale for consumption at late rates. This afternoon there was still little doing, and 398 bags at auction went at the reduction noticed above, good mid, at 13s ad. INDlGo.—'l"he market for East India is in a very inactive state ; there are generally sellers at 2d. a 3d. discount on the last quarterly sale. Spanish has si:pported former rates, 20 serons Guatemala at auction sold at 58.9 d. a thi. ad. for mid. to fine Sobres, and 53. ass. 9d, for low to good Cortes. pits.—There has been a revival in the demand for the common rl:7- scriptions of Fish Oils, at an advance on former prices of 20s. to 40s. fir Southern and Cod ; 271. ss. paid for the former of good quality, and 351. for the latter : at auction 120 tuns Southern sold readily at 251. ss. to 271. 153. for or.iinary to fins quality. Linseed has bean in good re. quest, and prices have advanced to 275. and 275. (id. Palm is held for 45/., but there has little passing. Tea.--Tinportors continue to require full prices, but there has beim little doing owing to the public sales of 12,554,8201b5., which take place or. Monday next. TALLOW.—The Mai kct has again been in a very dull state, and lower prices by Is. fisi. to 2s. have been submitted to, 555. to 565. accepted for small panels of Petersburg Yellow Candle of first quality ; the price for delive:y in the three last months remains at 475., at which few contracts have been entered into. Coro.—The Market is still in a very dull state. Of 5,459 bales I Surat onred, only 300 were disposed of at a reduction on previous rates of Id. a id., very middling and middling fair selling at 4id. to 41d., out of 1,835 Madras only 500 were disposed of at 58. for good fair, 518. fur good, and 48. to 418. for ordinary, showing a decline or id. ; of the Bengal 836 bales only 40 sold at a reduction of id., good fair went at 418. ; the remainder taken in, similar quality at 4 id. Since the sales 300 bales sol:I at the above raxs. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—We are glad to 1i id that our gracious young Queen has so early in the season commenced her viiits: to the Italian Opera. Friday night she attended, without the pomp of a State reception, the perform ance of the Sonnambula. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Duchess of Kent and several other personages. The opera of the Sonnambula was repeated with increased effect. Per siani confirmed the favourable impression she made on Satur day and Tuesday nights. She has taken the first rank in her profLssion, and bids fair to become an ornament to the stage. The new tenor, Tati, decidedly improves. He received a good share of applause, and went through the trying song in the se cond act which Rubini has immortalised in a manner to elicit very warm applause. The overture to William Tell was played between the acts, and with so much effect that an encore was demanded, and was complied with. It was the intention of the management to give Matilda de Shabran on Saturday, but that arrangement has been superseded by the necessity of get ting forward with all possible despatch Donizetti's Lucia de Lammermoor, in which Persiani made her great hit at Paris. Her Majesty did not leave the theatre till the ballet of Masa nidlo was concluded. ADELPMI THEATTIE.-The Guide of the Tyrol, an adaptation from a piece which has been played at Paris, was produced here on Friday night. Andreas Hofer (Mr. Yates) is led to execution in the first act. Wilhelm Kelman ( Mr. 0. Smith), keeper of a hosti lry in a passage of the Tyrol and guide through the mountain passes, resolves to protect Ber th►a Hofer (Mrs. Yates), the daughter of his martyred friend. Fritz his son (Mr. Lyon), aspires to the hand of Bertha, who does not encourage his addresses. Alfred Koller (Mr. Sa ville), who has been a fellow-prisoner with Hofer, comes to the hostelry to obtain the assistance of the guide in searching a recess in the glaciers in which his father, who has perished in the mountains, has left a pocket-book con taining documents of importance to the recovery of his rights and the justification of his mother. Arnold Keller (Mr. Cullenford), a relation of Alfred, and the man who has seized his property and vilified his mother, comes also to the hos telry, where he overhears Alfred endeavouring to persuade Fritz to accompany him in the perilous search. He works upon the jealousy of Fritz by persuading him that, but for Alfred Keller, Bertha would return his affections. Fritz, the dupe of jealousy and delusion, accompanies his victim to the mountains, and leaves him to perish. He is, however, struck with remorse, reproaches his tempter, and becomes frantic. Old Kelman, at the hazard of his own life, ascends the moun tain to rescue the unfortunate man, and is successful. Poetic, or rather more than poetic, justice is done to Fritz and the villain Arnold ; they close their career by killing each other ; and the curtain falls amidst the ruins of an avalanche and the total destruction of the. hostelry. The scenery, dresses, and mechanical appliances of this piece are very good ; the ava lanche is well contrived, and the effect is good. Pious PLUMPTRE :—Above all, Members of the Legislature —and foremost among them pious Members, pug ht to be hedged in by legislation—because sins and bacicslicllngs on their part bring disgrace both upon legislation and religion. One useful section (if the question must be taken in sections) would be, to eject from the House of Commons every Member who shall have obtained his seat by professing certain opinions, and who shall have practised the very opposite the moment that his election was secure. Such a measure might, perhaps, be intelligible to Mr. Plumptre; and it would not be amiss that a severer punishment should be inflicted where a Tory Member obtained his seat in one Parliament, by declaring himself a Liberal, and then poisoned a number of the electors by his example, so as to come in an avowed Tory at a suc ceeding election. —Dover Chronicle. CLERICAL IRREVERENCE.—An eccentric clergy man of this neighbourhood, who officiated the other day (in the place of the incumbent) at a funeral in the church chapel at Wortley, gave some offence to the mourners by hastily quitting the desk at the instant of concluding the service, going into the vestry, and returning to the vestry door with a newspaper in his hand, which, with characteristic nonchalance, he readin the presence of the mourners and friends during the whole time of the singing of the funeral psalm ! —Leeds Mercury. We hear that Sir Richard Hunter has written to the Pension Revision Committee, tendering the resignation of the pensions he has enjoyed since the 14th of January, 1826 (177/.), and the 17th of February, 1827 (1110 — Brighton Guardian. Among the injuries done by the late severe winter is the total extinction of fig-trees in several parts of the country. An officer holding a superior appointment in the military hospital at Toulouse shot himself a few days ago on the grave of his wife, and died immediately. At the same moment his daughter at home swallowed poison, with intent to kill herself, but hopes aro entertained of her life. That misfortunes seldom come alone is verified in the case of Lord Charlemont, who, at the very time that he is robbed of the Countess's jewels in London, has part of his property in Ireland destroyed by an incendiary fire. HUGE EGG.—A Scotch paper notices a goose ego', which measured one foot by 91 inches i n g i rt h, an d we igh e d 12i ounces, and states that the same goose has laid three eggs weighing together upwards of 24 lbs. PRICES Or t,ANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. - - LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30. "lumber Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Mares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham....Merage 971. ISs.ah. 135 1.082 41. Ashby-tie-le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 5 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. 100 8,000 1-16 3 h. 9/ 6s. Birmingham, I- 16 th share 6 1 1. & 711. 2'20 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l3ol sh. 100 pd 241 600 11. Bridgewater and Taunton -.1001. sh. all pd 64 400 41 Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 1001. sh. 745 4.545 Ctoytion 1,0601 41. Si. Dudley ..... 1001. sh. 83 600 14t. Derby 1001. sh. 123 20,000 4 per cent, Danube and Me.yne 3,5751 51. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 77 231 461. Erswash 1001 on. '7OO ,1,297 281. Forth and Clyde Average 4001.16 a. th. 5 4 0 1,600 121. Grand Junction Itol. sh. 212 2,1494 U. Grand Union 1001. eh 25 LSO() Grand Surrey , e , lOOl. si.. 2 0 °O,OOOl. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. '7O 5,096 Grand Western GOO 13/.12a. id. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4st 230 '749 10 1 . Grantham l5Ol. sh. 202 6,23-1 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. fls. 6d. sh. 37 100 ... ...... Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 2 5,1r23 11. ss. Kennet and Avon, Average 391. Ids. 10d. sh. 251 2,?(071 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 610 544 131. Leicester l4Ol. oh. 225 1,897 6/. Os. Leicester and Nortkampton...A•er 113/. 10s. 91 2.400 101. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 210 150 101. Melton Mowbray 1091. sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 1001. 8h . 565 2.0(e3 1/.los. Macclestleld 1001. sh. all pd. 52 247 171. Neath 1001 811 325 1,786 301. Oxford. 100/ sh 630 2,400 51. Peak Forest A•erege about 781. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 336 sh 16 S,EM 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh . . 111 )151 sh. 11381 8)0 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/ sh. 1514 3,6 1 10/. 4i per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 111 700 40/. Stafflird and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 1251 ah. 2e,0 300 91. Rourbridge 3,647 21. Is. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. tel. 250 sh. 50 5.33 151. Swansea 1001 sh 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and. Railway ...A". 351. sh. 25 ,110 , Isn. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey , 1 s hare lOO/. sh. 560 6.149 ...... ... Thames ;.rid Medway...Aver. 191 . 5 5. id. eh. 2 ..oeosh.l , e , W arw i c k acrd Birmingham 1001.8 h. 265 I 010010.5 '"" 940 1I a. Warwick and N ap ton lOO/.Bh. 2:r 6,000 41.00. Worcestar and Birmingham-A.1%7648 1 . 6 h. I i 5,011 25 8 . Wilts an.. Becks .. Average 671. 10e.'Ekl. sh. SOO 31, Wyrley and Essingtonl2sl. sh 75 irl Wisbeach lO5/. sh. 45 905 It, Wey and Arun llO/. sh. 25 DOCKS. 2,6(}0 Fe } 3p. e Commercial 100 /. sh. 5 1,06515 h '498,66741. ti per ct. East Indi a ....Stock 11 3,236,3101/. sus.p.ct. London Stock : Ditto 3onds 1,1340,0001. 441. p. et. West India Stock II 2,209 21. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 51. par cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 4i per rent Ditto Bonds 2110.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tut' 10 years 2.500 Deptford Pier 201. ,h. 20/. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 lin. Hammersmai 501..h. 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 60!. 2s. Bd. sh. 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 5,000 ... ...... Waterloo lOOl. sh. 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6Ol. pd 3,000 160. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 401. pd 50.0601. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonus 5,918 17s Vauxhall Average 70/. 10s. 3d. sh. ASSURANCie COMPANIES. '2,000 311!1, Albion 5001. sh. 501. pd 5 0 000 rl n e , l i cen t .Alliance,British to Foreign 100/. sh. 1 01/. pd 50,060 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 24.00)) 11. per sh. Atlas 'ell. eh. 51. pd 1,200 Isle 51. Birmingham k ire "501. sh. 551, pd 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 19,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. oh. 5/, pd 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Mediessi,Stc. Life, ICO/.sh. 2110 s pd 4,000 21 Itls County 1001. sh. 101. pd 20,000 58. Eagle Wu/ , e [ a" 5 pe 301 b.. 1 Economic Lite r cent. 1000/. sh. 250/. pd 2 2,271 Vs. per cent. European Li.a no!. sh. all pd t 50,000 . 253. Ditto, New 2Ol. att. 21. pd 1,010,0001. 71. per et. Globe 20,000 51 . Guardian lOO /. sh. 271/ pd 3 40,000 6s. id. Hope 50 /. sh. 51. pd 2,440 5!. 7s. (id. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 121 7,500 93. Imperial law 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Mao ins ...... ......... 1101. sh. Si. pd 22 2,020 31 100 Kest Fire 501. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10,`:00 168. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 25) s Mr 10s. London, Fire 231. sh. 111. 103. pit li. 3,900 10s. London, Ship °U. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16 I.oi o.ooci. ... ..... Minerva Lifa lOOl. sh. 30,01:0 1. per cent. Palladium Lit- 50/. ale 21. pet 21 Ss id 50,1.01 4/. per cent. Protector Fite "4(1. sh. 2/. pd :7...011 9,500 11. Proviient late NO/. sh. 101. pd 20 190,000 ss. Rock Life ` ) 01. sh. 1/. led 61. 68 , ,220/ 5/. per coat. Royal Exchei.ge Stock... • 225 t 3,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOOl. sh. 51. pd 51 50,010 4 per cent United Kingdom Life "'l. pd JOINT STUCK B AN KS 25,000 8 percent. Agric andCumm.of Ireland 25/. sh. IN. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 6(1 111,1Xu6 111 percent. Ban', of Birmingham 5(l. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,100 IG per cent. Birmingham Bank ..... 50/. sh. 51. pet 161 1,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 201. pd 21 a,OOO 4 per cent. ',Duster 1001.811. 10/. pd 30 trooo 50,000 '7/ per cent Manenester and Liverpool} 100/.0. 151 0 19 Discount . 2 1 ,0 M 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 251 pd ''" 20,(X)0 Provincial 13'tnk of Ireland 1001. sh. 25/. pi 4 20,10 A National Batik of Ireland s"l. sh. 171/. pd 1 19,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. -1001. oh. 351. pd V. 1'2,000 Gloucestershire ta. oh. 101. pd t: 6,000 lOper cent. Hanmshire 50/. oh. 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 11 58 tiel Bath 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 161. pd B,nee c 5/.percentl ""' /and Bs. 55.5 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 19 d 928 51 103 Birmingham 5O/. sh. 1,250 '2l Oa Bristol 1,500 3: 10s Brighton 2O/. sh. 750 31 106 Ditto, New 2Ol. eh. ISt. pd 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. oh. all pd 4,000 41. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. R2{!. pd 1,000 101. City or London .......... .......100!. sh. all pct u i 1,000 61. Ditto, New 1. pdi 11,000 41. les. Equitable .. :0,"00 21 per cent. Imperial 5Z ' it. Isle ‘if l'haliet ' l 'l sh 2Ol. pd 'BOO -,. per cent. 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 3O!. sh. all 0,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 391. pd 1,000 41. per cent. !latent! 100/. sh. 801. i 1,000 South Metropolitan 4,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. eh. 4(1.4p 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. el 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh sn/ 12,000 31. Westminster Chart ered 6,i/00 123. Ditto New eco Yarmouth 2O/. sh. 181. WATER WO tt KS. 1,800 9s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/ pd 1,434 (31. East London lOO/. eh 5,500 21 19e elr.n Junction -.Average 411 135 1 . 00 , 1a 1 1 . ..5h h ' 2,000 21. Kent "NI. eh 373 10/. Liverpool !footle 1,500 21 10e New River London Bridge Water Annuitie 6,486 11 151 Manchester and Salford ................100/. eh. 1,0:0 4 per cant. South London 1001. sh. 1 ,294 4/. West Middlesex ....Average 631. Pas. 9d. sh 1.360 1/ 11s York Building Co. Lesse e Pr o p lOO/. sh IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 ..... .... Birmingham and Derby ......... ... 2 ' l. Pd. 9,5a0 Birmingham and Gloucester l5l. pa 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15,000 Bristol and Exeter :tall. eh. 10 MI Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. '2l. 7,500 .... Cheltenham and G. Western...:ool. sh. 7j 3,006 12,000 9,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 60,006 Eastern Counties 23/. eh. 5/. Grand Junction 1001. sh. 951. p, Great North of England l3/. 5,900 ...... ... Great Western lOOl sh. 654 i 2,000 Hartlepool 1001. eh. 1001 8,000 I lull and aelby 501. sh. 10/. i 10,00 a Le '.s and Manchester 100/. sh. 5/.1 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 .11 1,500 ILas. Leicaster and Swannington ....NV. sh. all pd 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and 51anchester...10(1. eh. 1001. pi 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares .51. pd 36,000 ...... ... London and Briglitou 5Ol. sh. 81. Pd 12,000 London and Blackwall 50/. eh. 31 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sk. 4(1. p 4 23,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 904 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. 1 20,000 ...... ... London and Southampton 501 , sh. 501. Ditto ditto New 5l. 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk 101. sh. 9 01 . 7 ,0 , )0 Ditto Scrip 14/. sh. 5/. pd 12,000 London Grand Junction 501. sh. 51. pd 10,0:30 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.Bh. 71. North Midland 10(1!. sh. 2.5/. Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. SI. Pd %COO ...... ... Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 3 1,1 . Pd 28,000 1, 1 0) 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 0,000 ... ...... Thames Haven 501. sh '2l. 10s. pd 1,400 ...... ... Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. pct 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12!. pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l sh. 91/. pd 4,000 11. 58. A lten 151. sh. 121. 10s pd 10 ,000 ........ Anglo Mexican, is.. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all oil Ditto Subscription •%51. pa 2,000 101. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd 10,000 11. 10e Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pin 351. sh. '2Ol. pd 6,0 0 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 91. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd 10,000 ... a .... Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 91. pd 30,000 British Iron 501. sh. 501 pd 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 411. pd Cate Branca 611. pd Cendonga 7ll. Pd 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh 1211 pd 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31. English 121 Its, pd 20,000 General Mining Aesociation...2ol. sh. 151. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 53/1. pd 3,000 ... ...... Polberou Consols lOl. sh. 81. pd 11,500 Real del Monte Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol pd 30,000 ..... .... United Mexic*i, Ise. 2 prn.....401. sh. all pd Ditto, Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 501, sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,500 700 Ring' College 100 L p MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15a. Australian Agricultural....look sh. 2011. pd 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 10,000 et per cent. Canada Company 1001. eh. 281. pd 900,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 IL 6t. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751 sh. 8,00 0 ......... C N a e o w ritc ß h ru ou n c ,,w C i r k Company Company ...... 43L pd 251. sh. 211. pd 11,751,. 5/. per cent. Reversionary InterestSoc...lool. sh. 1001. pd 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 701. pd 4,000 10,000 61. Van Die.ner.'s Land 1001. oh. 171. pd LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. BANKS. 1.500,0054 81. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 831. 6s. Bd. sh, all pd 192(. 2,0(X),0X/ , se p. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001. Rh. all pd 1101, 500.0001. II p. ct. British Linen Company 1001,.b. ~i i pd 236/. 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OO l. sh. 1001. pd 1801. 5,000,0E10c ,0. CL Nttloll3 l lOO l.llll. 101. pd 1611. 2,000,000 1 . 81. p. et Glasgow Union 2501. eh. 501. pd 71 /. 4,000,01.01. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 301, p d 421. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. gi p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 1/, pd Cgs 10e,000 p. ct. Insurance co. of Scotland = lOl. sh. all . ,500 6i p. ct. He rcules 1001. sh . 101 . pd 131 15s. pd 815 e '•- - - - 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 161. LOCO sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1 10e 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh !are IUOI. sh. 10/. p d .et West M of Scotland lOOl. sh. 10L pd 141163 100,001 3 ;p ISCELLANEOUS. 101. pd 1/ Os 4,910 FAlin.and Glas. Un. Canal 501. £h. all pd :2/. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stuck \Vater 251. sh. all pd 544 Carron lrun Company 250/. sh. all pd 441. 2,0005 h 15 per cent Shotts Iron Foundery 501. s h W. pd 451. 10,000 3 per cunt. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 201. sh. IC/. pd Si. 4,5(K) 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 661 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas .51. sh. all pd 1311 • 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 201. sh. all pd 451. 1,t106 Edinburgh and Dalkeith RaFtway...sol. sh 251. 3,000 5 per oat. Egui Wale Loan Compaiiy `l5l. oh. Vl, pd 101. THE CATACOMBS AT VIENNA (From Mrs. Trollope's " Vienna and the Austrians.") The present entrance to these vaults is by a small obscure door, situated amidst the houses behind the cathedral: it opens upon a small and sordid chamber, where two or three women were washing; which being traversed, we found our selves in a paved court, or rather passage, in the same style of domestic use, and domestic dirt, having at the farther end of it another door, from which the steps into the catacombs de scended. This obscure approach proved that what we were about to see was not often visited as a spectacle ; and if we had drawn the rational inference from this, and concluded that we should find nothing which it was desirable to see, we might have escaped gazing upon the most horrible scene that could be exhibited to mortal eyes. Instead of turning back, how ever, as I think we ought to have done, the demon of curiosity urged us forward; we descended the steps, and, each being provided with a lighted flambeau of wax, proceeded on our horrid expedition. Two men accompanied us—one preceding, the other following ; they both counted the number of the party, and earnestly charged us to keep together. Our pro cession looked in some degree fitted to the scene, for the lights we bore were of the form used at funeral solemnities, and had doubtless already been employed in such, for they were all in part consumed. Haying threaded a narrow passage of no great length, we turned at right-angles round the wall of it, and found our selves at the top of another and much handsomer flight of steps. These latter were of stone, and neatly vaulted with the same material ; the former were, I think, of wood, and could not have made part of the original construction. Where the former entrance might have been, I know not ; but it is pro bably now blocked up ; and that by which we approached, opened solely for the convenience of those whose ghostly business still leads them occasionally to those obsolete graves. As we passed along the passage leading from this second flight of steps, I observed a very obscure glimmering of day light far above our heads ; and, on inquiring whence it came, was told that it proceeded from a grating in the church above, through which bodies had formerly been let down into the vaults. We continued our way for some time without en countering anything more terrific than what we naturally ex pected in vaults consecrated to the reception of a vast conge ries of dead bodies ; that is to say, we saw, first on one side of us, and then on the other, walls built up of human bones, of no great extent indeed, but arranged exactly in the man ner represented in the engravings of the Parisian cata combs. And here the exhibition should have ended, and doubtless was intended to do so, if indeed exhibition was ever intended at all. But the man who led the party walked on, and on we all walked after him. And now the scene changed; this sem blance of order, and of something like reverence for the hu man relics collected there, disappeared altogether, and such a scene greeted us as will probably visit my dreams at intervals as long as I live. We reached a large square vault, in which our conductor paused ; and, holding low the light he carried, showed us, stretched in horrible disorder on the ground— which was rugged and uneven with huge masses of obscene decay—a multitude of wholly naked and unconfined bodies, in every attitude that accident could produce. From some peculiarity of atmosphere, probably its singular and very remarkable deficiency of moisture, the decomposition which usually follows death, has not taken place here ; but, instead of this, the skin is dried to the substance of thick lea ther ; while the form, and in a multitude of cases the features also, remain just sufficiently unchanged in shape, to make their grinning likeness to ourselves the most striking, and the most appalling possible. The varied postures, and the diffe rent expression of each ghostly head, made them all seem to live in death ; and I trembled as I looked at them, lest, as Ju liet says, that I might go distraught— " Environed with all those hideous sights, • And madly play with the long-buried bones." Such a spectacle, and the careless confusion in which the horrible objects that composed it were strewed about, was in truth enough to make a woman's step falter and her senses reel ;3 et this was but the beginning of horrors. Having allowed us time to look around, and take in at one general view the whole sickening scene, our conductor stooped, and seizing one of these lamentable epitomes of a human being by the throat, raised him before our eyes, and made him stand upright to be gazed upon, manoeuvring his flambeau the while so as to make the grim figure more distinctly visible, and des canting, as he did so, on his height and goodly proportions. Then, suddenly letting the rattling carcase fall at our feet, he caught up another, told us it was a woman; then threw her aside, and raised a third ; and, while supporting it against his own body with the same hand in which he held the ►ight, he tore off with the other long strips of the dry skin to show Low tough it was. B u t decidedly the most horrid spot of all was a vault, which had been divided by a brick wall, apparently of less substan tial masonry that the rest of the buildings. For many years, our conductor told us. the vault thus divided off had received a multitude of coffined corses cast into it from above; but at length the weight against the new side wall became so great that it gave way ; and the same hateful flambeau that had been so repeatedly flourished before us, was now very skilfully used to show the yawning chasm through which has fallen into the vault where we stood some scores of coffins, which, bursting open as they fell, cast out their ghastly inmates, one tumbling head over heels upon another in such hideous and abhorrent confusion as makes the blood cold to remember. Many of these gaping coffins hang hitched and suspended in their fall ; and I could not but fancy that if any among us moved too suddenly, or even shook the air by speaking aloud, another horrid avalanche might fall through the same opening and overwhelm us in its rattling mass. 14i 1071 24 24 SIB THE 'WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—Wednesday last was a bitter day. The guard of the London mail gave a frightful account of the fresh-fallen snows that covered Shap- Fell and the adjoining heights ; and Skiddaw, Saddleback, and Helvellyn indexed sufficiently, by the deepened livery they again wore, the state of matters further inland. On the Scotch side it mts much the same. On Thursday the London and Edinburgh mails arrived late—the first an hour and a half, and the second more than two hours, behind the proper time. From these facts we infer that the roads are again partially blockaded in the south and north-east. Up to the present time (Tuesday morning) the hills arc still white with snow, and though the different mails and coaches arrive and depart pretty regularly, the guards and drivers give a sad account of the state of the roads east, west, south, and north. Very few sheep have as yet been lost in what is called the Reay country, and the other extensive tracts in Sutherland, but most disastrous reports have reached us from the mountain heights of Ross-shire. Mention is also made of an avanlauche of snow and earth which descended from a frowning steep in the parish of Eddrachilsil, which carried with stones, trees, and every other intervening substance, and killed ten goodly red deer while peacefully grazing at the foot of the mountain.— Dumfries Courier, A circumstance occurred at Coleshill on Saturday last which has occasioned considerable excitement in that town and neighbourhood. A boy was set to dig up some waste ground at the back of a house. for the purpose of sowing car rots, when he turned up two skulls and several other bones of a human body. Mr. Barker, the surgeon, was immediately sent for, who pronounced them to be those of a woman and child. From recollection of the circumstance, suspicion in stantly fell on a man who had formerly lived on the premises, and who had removed about eight years ago to Leamington, with his wife and child, but of whom nothing had since been heard, except that the husband had married again. Inquiry was promptly made, and he was traced to this town, in em ployment at the station of the London and Birmingham Rail way Company as a journeyman carpenter. He was on Mon last taken into custody, and removed to Coloshill to await the result of the Coroner's inquest, which was to be held last night at the Swan ; but the result of the inquiry we hare not been able to aaeartain.—Coventry Herald. THE LATE FATAL FIGHT AT POPLAR.—On Friday night, at nine o'clock, Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and the jury empannelied on Wednesday last, reassembled at the Globe Tavern, Black", all, for the purpose of further pursuing their inquiry touching the death of Thomas Boulter, who was killed on Monday last in a prize fight with a young man named Edward Blakey. A witness, named John Aldris, was called and examined at some length. At the conclusion of his testimony the Coroner summed up, and commented on the evidence with great clearness and perspicuity ; after which the jury retired, and, after an absence of about twenty minutes, they returned into the inquest room, and returned a verdict of manslaughter against Edward Blakey, as the principal, and Thomas Curtis, John Mason, Robert Tantony, and Thomas Sullins, as the seconds in the fight. The Coroner then bound the witnesses examined over to prosecute, and issued his war rant for the committal of the parties in custody to take their trial at the ensuing session of the Central Criminal Court. The parties in custody—namely, Blakey, Curtis, and Mason, arc remanded by Mr. Hardwick from Lambeth-street Office, who will dispose of the case according to the evidence brought before him. CHARGE OF MURDER OF A WIFE AND CHILD. _A circumstance occurred at Coleshill on Saturday last, which has occasioned considerable excitement in that town and neighbourhood. A boy was set to dig up some waste ground at the back of a house for the purpose of sowing carrots, when he turned up two skulls, and several other bones of a human body. Mr. Barker, the surgeon, was immediately sent for, who pronounced them to be those of a woman and child. From the recollection of circumstances, suspicions instantly fell on a man who had formerly lixed on the premises, and who had removed about eight years ago to Leamington with his wife and child, but of whom nothing had since been heard, except that the husband had married again. Inquiry was promptly made, and he was traced to this town, in employment at the station of the London and Birmingham Railway Com pany, as a journeyman carpenter. He was on Monday last Monday last taken into custody, and removed to Coleshill to await the result of the Coroner's inquest, which was to be held last night at the Swan ; but the result of the inquiry we have not been able to ascertain. —Coventry Herald. STEAM V. WIND.—On Tuesday last the second class train, which leaves Darlington for Stockton at two o'clock. came into contact with two empty waggons, about five miles from their destination ; the waggons and the tender were thrown off the railroad by the concussion, and the pas sengers. none of whom were at all hurt, were fearful that they should he detained a long time by the accident, until the train was moved to the other line, when it went off at a rapid rate before the wind, then blowing ♦ery fresh, and reached Stock ton as soon as if it had been drawn by the steam-engine.— Stockton Herald. On Friday the body of a man was discovered Iw tween the paddles of the William Penn, steamer, when she came to her moorings at the stage at the Parade, Waterford. it is supposed that he fell off the stage into the river during the severe snow storm, about eight weeks back. PERJURY. TO THE LORD BISHOP OF EXETER. MY LORD,— You are styled a Spiritual Peer of Parliament —but why I am at a loss to discover. Do you sit in the House of Peers in right of your Bishopric ? I think not—you sit there, if history series me proper, in right of a Barony attached to the Bishopric : if such be the case, I contend you have no right to the assumption of being a spiritual Peer. I however now address your Lordship as a Civil Officer of the Ecclesi astical Department of the State, appointed Overseer or Bishop of the Clergy in a particular district or diocese—district and diocese being synonimous terms—an officer created by the English Parliament. As perhaps you may be disposed to dis pute such position, I beg to refer your Lordship to the 28th Hen. VIII., c. 16, which Act abolishes all archbishoprics, bi shoprics, and all other ecclesiastical dignities and incumben cies ; and the same Act which destroyed those Romish offices in England, re-created English archbishoprics, bishoprics, and ecclesiastical dignities and incumbencies. The bishopric which you now hold was created by the Act of Parliament re ferred to ; therefore I contend that your Lordship holds an office created by the English Parliament, and as such otlice was created by Parliament, I contend that such office is a civil offic., although your Lordship is directed by statute to perform eccle siastical or spiritual:duties. Everything which appertains to the Church is for the sake of distinction denominated ecclesias tical ; but where an Act of Parliament directs you to attend to specified duties, you act as a civil officer and not a spiritual one. Your spiritual duties I presume are solely those of offering up prayers and supplications to our God, and preaching the Word of God—on that point, my Lord, I shall not dare to at tack you, although I may perhaps differ with your Lordship on some points of doctrine. I beg to say that I never heard a discourse of your Lordship's without pleasure and delight. But now my Lord to business—you are perhaps aware that there is such a statute as " An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies : and for establishing the Farm of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, in tiie Church of England," passed 14th Charles 11.. and you will perhaps call to mind the oath which you took at your consecration as a Bishop, which was as fol lows : " Question put by the Archbishop— " Will you maintain and set forward, as much as shall lie in you, quietness, love and peace, among all men ; and such as be unquiet. disobedient, and criminous within your diocese, correct and punish according to such authority as you have by God's Word, and as to you shall be committed by the ordi nance of this Realm ?" Which your Lordship ratified by an swering, " I will do so, by the help of God." Now has not the Ordinance of this Realm committed to your authority the punishment of those who do not obey the Rubrics of the Common Prayer, and the Act for Uniformity of Public Prayers? I think you will riot offer a denial. Well, does not the Act for Uniformity order that the Morning and Evening Prayers set forth in the Book annexed to such Act, called the Book of Common Prayer, shall upon every Lord's Day, and upon all other days, be openly read in every church and chapel in England ? Does your Lordship enforce that part of the Act? I do not contend fur the expediency of doing so ; but this I must say, that I cannot discover where you are given authority to dispense with the direction of an Act of Parlia ment—if the law be inexpedient, let Parliament alter the law. In " The Order how the rest of the Holy Scriptures is ap pointed to be read," I find that " The Old Testament is ap pointed for the first Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer ; so as the most part thereof will be read every year once, as in the Calender is appointed. The New Testament is appointed for the Second Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer, and shall be read over every year thrice, besides the Epis tles and Gospels." By what right or authority were the Morn ing and Evening Prayers omitted this thy in the Church of the Parish in your diocese in which I reside, and the Les sons in the Calender Dictionary, 24th chapter, and Luke 16th chapter, at Morning Prayer, and 25th Deuteronomy and 4th Philipians, at Evening Prayer, not read according to the di rections of an Act of Parliament, being the Act of Uniformity of Public Prayer ? If your Lordship has power to dispense with the authority of that Act of Parliament, where is the sub sequent Act giving you that power ? If you cannot point one out, has your Lordship acted up to the oath taken at your con secration? Gibson, in his " Codix Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani," Pre face XI., remarks, " The Rubrics are well-known to be part of the statute law of the land, as having been confirmed in Parliament by the several Acts for Uniformity in the reigns of of Edward VI., Queen Elisabeth, and Charles ll."—this - your Lordship, lam sure, will not dispute. Does not the Rubric above the Litany direct that it shall be read on Wednesdays and Fridays? Is not your Lordship aware that the Litany is not read on Wednesdays and Fridays in one-twentieth part of the churches in your diocese? Does your Lordship attempt to enforce the reading of it according to the statute law of the Rubric ? The following is another Rubric :—" When the Minister giveth warning for the celebration of the Holy Communion, after the sermon ended, he shall read the exhortation to the Communion." Does not your Lordship always read that ex hortation before and not after the sermon ended, as directed by the Act of Parliament? What right has your Lordship to dis obey the direction of the Act of Parliament? Is not your Lordship aware that the clergy invariably do the sane ? Why does your Lordship, who is the overseer of the clergy, suffer them to contravene the direction of the Act for Uniformity? Is not your Lordship aware that any person rising in a Church or Chapel, during Divine Service, for the purpose of forbid ding the banns of marriage, is liable to be proceeded against, as a brawler, in the Ecclesiastical Court ? I say he is—yet the clergy invite such interruption by illegally using the word now—in publishing the banris they say—to those who know any cause or impediment "ye aro now to declare it." There is no such word in the Act of Parliament as " now." The words are "ye are to declare it," and the time of declaring the knowledge of such cause or just impediment why the par ties should not be joined in holy matrimony is stated in a Rubric, in the form of solemnization of matrimony, thus—" At which day of marriage, if any man do allege and declare any impediment why they may not be coupled together in matri mony by God's law, or the laws of this realm, and will be bound, and sufficient sureties with him, to the parties ; or else put in a caution (to the full value of the charges, as the par. ties to be married do thereby sustain) to prove his allegation, then the solemnization shall be deferred until such time as the trtali be tried." It is illegal to forbid the banns, in the Church or out of it; the only way legally to stay a marriage by banns is to attend the Church at the time of ceremony, and no other—excepting the parties are about to contract a marriage contrary to another Act of Parliament, of which the clergyman shall have due notice. But this I persist in—that forbidding the banns in a Church is an act of brawling, and the party liable to be punished by Ecclesiastical censure. It being the duty of the Clergy to read the services according to the Act of Parliament, why does your Lordship in this case again suffer them to act contrary to law ? Now, my Lord, I proceed to the Canons. Is it not, ray Lord, the practice of the Clergy in your diocese to refuse baptism in case of a mother presenting herself as a godmother on such occasions ? What authority have they to refuse ? The 29th Canon says—" No parent shall be urged to be present, eon be admitted to answer as godfather for his own child." Here, my Lord, is no restriction in the case of a mother standing as godmother; yet the clergy persist in refusing baptism where a mother presents herself as godmother? I contend such refusal is illegal—that although a father is forbidden to stand as godfather, yet a mother is allowed by law to stand as godmother. You, my Lord, together with your Clergy, are very fasti dious about your oath to obey the Canons, and even go so far as to say that your recognition of an Act of Parliament re pealing a Rubric or a Canon, by such Act contradicting a for mer Act, is compelling you and themselves to break your and their oaths ; but do you and they act tip to all those which are in full play? The 49th Canon says—" Neither the Mi nister, Churchwardens, nor any other officers of the Church, shall suffer any man to preach within their Churches or Chapels, but such as shall chew their licence to preach." Is not your Lordship aware that Ministers and Churchwardens allow strangers to preach in thousands of instances, and never demand an exhibition of their licences to preach ? Is your Lordship acting according to your oath, in wilfully allowing parties to vilify such Canon? I could, my Lord, go on in this strain to fill a whole news paper, but I have instanced enough for my purpose; and you may be disposed to exclaim—" Is this all you can hatch up after heading your letter with ' Perjury'—is this your mountain in labour—is this the mouse which the mountain has brought forth?" My Lord, I reply you have sworn "to correct and punish as to who shall be committed by the Ordinance of this Realm," these who disobey that part of the law which you are appointed to see fulfilled. These several things that I have brought forward may appear in themselves trifling things— but allow me to refer you to the Preface to the Prayer-book. Read under the article, " Of Ceremonies, why some be abo lished, and some retained." " The wilful and contemptuous transgression and breaking of a common order and discipline is no small offence before God. Let all things be done among you, saith St. Paul, in a seemly and due • order ; the appoint ment of the which order pertaineth not to private men ; there fore no man ought to take in hand, nor presume to appoint or alter any public or common order in Christ's Church, ex cept he be lawfully called and authorized thereunto." Now, 'my Lord, has your Lordship fully enforced the law, which you have sworn to do ? I shall not pro nounce i n y our case th a t which I might perhaps be justified in doing ; but allow me to ask your Lordship, if a Roman Catholic Bishop were to neglect a duty which he had sworn he would perform, would not your Lordship pronou nce it " P er j ure ." I remain your Lordship's obedient servant, March 5, 1838. CASTIGATOR. The Tipperary Free Press brings us the termina tion of the assizes at Clonmel, and announces the cheering fact, that of the immense number against whom the charge of wilful murder was paraded on the face of the calendar, so truly described and so well analysed by Judge Moore, not an indi vidual has been found guilty of that offence; and the Tories, who gloated in anticipation over the reeking gibbet, are, alas ! on this occasion, doomed to all the miseries of disappointment. THE SHERIFF AT HIGH MASS.—On Sunday, the High Sheriff, W. Blundell, Esq., of Cros ly (who is a Roman Catholic), attended at St. Nicholas' Chapel, Cop_ peras-hill. High was perforraed. The Sheriff's javeline men attended that functionary, and a great many of tha mili tary were in attendance. The chapel was crowded, and many Protestants were present. The High Sheriff sat in the front seat of the gallery, opposite the altar.—Liverpool Mercury. Lieutenant Brooks, the unfortunate gentleman ‘v ho was severely crushed when the collision took place between the Lucifer steamer and the Westchester, died on Friday evening, after suffering. much agony by the removal of several splinters of bone.—Liverpool Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE ROLLS' COURT,III4Ren 31. ARNSLEY V. PARSONS.—JUDGMRNT. His LORDSHIP said that this was an exception to the Mas ter's report, in which he had declared that, of the following legacies, the last only was charged on certain leasehold estates of which the testator was possessed. He left to his wife 2501. to his servant 101. a year, and also to his niece, Letitia Clark son, 1501. a year, if his leasehold houses would bear the charge. 'Die case had been very ably and candidly argued by the Learned Counsel on both sides, but he was of opinion that the Master was not justified in finding as he had done, and should have found that the whole of the legacies were intended by the tes ' tator's will to have been charged on the leasehold estate in suc cession, that to the wife taking precedence. A dinner is to be given to the Dorchester labourers, who were convicted of combination on Easter Monday, at White Conduit House, the proprietor of which has received orders to provide for 2,000. There will be a grand procession or the Trades thicists on the occasion. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.--Saturday a Com mission was held at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Chester street, Chelsea, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. James Shipden, a gentleman of large property, formerly of Dover, but latterly an inmate of Dr. Sutherland's asylum, Chelsea. it was stated that the Commission had been sued out by H. M. Prior, Esq., of Epson, the husband of Mr. Shipden's sister ; that the unfortunate gentleman was a bachelor, was about 33 years of age, and had no relatives living except Mrs. Prior; and that, although not labouring under any particular delusion, he was suffering from so total a bereavement of in tellect, that for the last three years he had been placed under restraint. It was stated in evidence that he treated his sister as a stranger, threw pastry at her, smashed wine glasses, and then commenced repeating the burial service ; and that he was in the habit of running about the garden on his hands and knees, and was very mischievous. The unfortunate gen tleman was brought into the room, and accommodated with a chair opposite the Commissioners. He was a fine-looking man, and was dressed in a blue military *leak. On entering the room he commenced reading aloud a bill for the election of a tax-collector for the parish, which was pasted against the wall, and paid no attention when addressed by the Com missioners and Jury, but rose up and attempted to get over the back of a chair and butted with his head against his keeper. After his removal the Jury immediately returned a verdict " That he had been of unsound mind and incapable of managing his affairs since the 9th of August, 1833." On Saturday, at the Kensington Petty Sessions, Dr. Glenn, of Brompton-row, accompanied by Mr. Gray, a solicitor, applied to the sitting Magistrates for their advice. Dr. Glenn stated, that some time since he was called in to attend a gentleman named Nelson, of College-street, Chelsea, whom he found to be decidedly insane, and he accordingly re commended he should be placed under restraint. From that period Mr. Nelson had taken every opportunity of annoying him ; and during the late severe frost, had exhibited, while skating in Hyde-park and in Kensington-gardens, large pla cards on his person, denouncing him (Dr. Glenn) as a mur derer, perjurer, &c., and during the last two days he had em ployed himself in parading up and down Brompton-row with a large placard, cautioning persons not to go to Dr. Glenn for advice, or they would be poisoned. The bench said, they did not see how they could interfere in the case. It was matter for a civil action, unless some breach of the peace took place in consequence, and all they could do would be to .send one of the police sergeants to Mr. Nelson, to induce hina to refrain. NEPAUL.—The following is an accoutnt of the cruelties practised towards the physician who was lately de tected of having poisoned the young son of th a Rajah of Nepaul—" About 2 p.m. the physician was take n from the cell (having previously suffered sundry flagelllations and frequent torture, wtth a view to extort confession), and bound on a charpoy by the arms and legs. Se cured thus, and accompanied by the King, Nobles, and nearly the whole of the population of the city, the executioners received orders to draw out tha eyes of the culprit. In this stnto he was paraded about for some time, when a second order was given to cut off the soles of his feet, and :stuff pieces of them into the poor man's mouth—all of which being dull enacted, they ordered him to be flayed from the be east down ward, and rubbed with salt and lime juice. This done, the prisoner began to show great symptoms of exhaustion and ap proaching death—perceiving which they cut out his heart, when the miserable man expired. having suffered for two hours the most excruciating torture. His head was then taken off with one stroke of the kookery, after which he was suspended by a string, and carried in procession along the streets of his native village." CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—The April ses' sions commence this day. The calendar being exceeding l y heavy, it is expected to occupy at least ten or eleven tier' The cases of .John Tiers for arson, John Williams andl othersf. for forging a will, James Marryatt for murder, ana that the late fatal fight at Poplar, are each expected to occupy two days. The trial of Mien, who, it will be recollected , is charged with having set fire to his house in High -street, Mary lebone, is fixed for Wednesday. On Saturday afternoon a fatal accident occur red to rt! the mansion of Lady Colborne, Shepherd's-bush. As a nu un d ber of workmen were employed in raising scaffolding -r° 1 the exterior of the building, that portion on which an cia e man named Patrick Mullins was engaged suddenly gars when the unfortunate man was precipitated from a height of nearly 40 feet, and falling on his head, his skull was literally smashed to ato ns. We understand the poor fellow, who lived in Gee's-court, Oxford-street, has left a widow and four chil dren, who were dependent on him for support. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING ROOM.—The Pro prietor of the Court Journal Gazette of the Fashionable World, begs to announce that, in consequence of the e xtreme interest attached to her Majesty's Drawing Rooms, he intends, at the suggestion of several ladies of distinction, to give, i n addition to the usual alphabetical list of the Presentations, a full description of the Dresses worn by the ladies attencli4 the Court of her most Gracious Majesty. And, in order that the space so devoted may not interfere with the or iginal fea ri tures of the Court Journal, an extra half-sheet will bo givecry (without additional charge) on the Saturday following cr ib Drawing Room, commencing on Saturday next, April 7tll. Office 19, Catherine-street, Strand. Mrs. S. C. Hall, the popular authoress of " Buccaneer," " Uncle Horace," &c., is, we hear, on the eve .° publishing her " Lights and Shadows of Irish Life." A co a t temporary has observed that, " In the wide and ample fiele: a Irish character Mrs. Hall has no•living competitor; not el .. excepting Maria Edgeworth." Certainly Mrs. Hall's 2 1,4 d rate knowledge of this highly imaginative people has enahine her to display their peculiarities, humourous and pathetic. 8 .4 to contrast their vices and virtues more appositely - 11 : 1 !.a characteristically than any other writer we are acqua,'l,t!'„, with. We have every reason to believe that the forthcorn " Lights and Shadows" will attain as great a degree of Pcq larity as her weil-known " Sketches" of Irish Character. It is in contemplation by the proprietors of Water Bridge to erect a jetty from the second or third arch of terloo Bridge, on the Somerset House side, for the accom o l; dation of passengers who may be desirous of landing the from the steam-boats. The convenience of the plan is üb, vious, arid the public will no doubt avail themselves of t opportunity. The French papers mention an extraordinary statis tical fact. The number of young men liable to the c onsef i _P2: tion in France in the present year (that is to say, those beT., in 1817-18) amount only to five-sixths of those of the Pr% ceding year. This decrease of one-sixth is accounted for. these papers by reference to the dearth which prev ailed France (as elsewhere in Europe) in that year, 1817. PATENT LEVER WATCH S O With silver double-bottom cases xj; 6 0 With silver hunting cases 6 16}l hi This celebrated construction (the most accurate en w- c „ S t o,, watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improve n l6- e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, 0 110 hand to mark•the seconds, hard enamel dial, and ma i n taining Po to continuo going while winding up, at the above prise, by T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London , (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street.) N.B.—Second-hand 'Watches purchased in excle,. ITHS. On the 25th ult., Mrs. B T. R C. Simmons, Grove, Carnberv"ll' of a daughter. et , On the 27th ult., Mrs. Thomas M. Wadd, of Basing hall-stre of a son. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Henry Hall, of Lamb's Conduit-stre es of a son. On the 23d ult., at St. Helier's, the lady of F. W. Hill, s(l '' 10th Regiment, of a daughter. Of gei.' MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at Streatham Chureh, John Nokes , Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, to Anne, eldest daughter of the J. Harrison, Esq , of Balham-hill, Surrey. DIED. On the 23d ult., at Morben Lodge, Machynlleth, Monte' vielf ' shire, Peter Styan, Esq., aged 74. On the 25th ult., Robert, Lord Berners, aged 78. a l. On the 27th ult., aged 63, Mr. Joseph May of Londonc,, sf- a l , of On the 24th ult., Anne Vaughan, wife of , T. Jones, r''' .. York-place, Queen's-elms, Chelsea. sE ( I . ' On the 23d ult., at her son-in-law's, John Littlevsoo d, Lower Eaton-street, Belgrave-square, Mrs. Downes. it Ng. On the 20th ult., at Hayling, Hants, the infant so n of ''' Greenfield, Esq. On the 23d alt., Mr. George Marsh, of Coblsam-row, Clerke well, aged 73. On the 24th ult., at Manchester, Mr. D. S. Child, aged 5 .? , :d On the 28th ult., Sarah Ann, wife of J. Cressingharn/ 1-- '''' J. Dill, 1 : 5(1. ' Grove, Carshalton, Surrey, and da , tighter of the late Bread-street, and Llandrinio Hall, Montgomeryshire. ~.,„ „both! On the 27th ult., in Caroline.place, Guildford-street, Di" relict Taylor, of Ludgate-street, aged 63. ,„i 4 J as. On the 24th It at Shirley, near Southamptor, ag— 1 ' y'l Chicherley Hyde, Esq., for 45 years in the East ladia Cn n l' an Home Service.A lr ' On the 23d ult., in Great Guildford-street , Southwark' Thos. Evans, aged 70. o ttidg ,c o f On the 14th ult., aged 65, Mrs. Charlotte Elisabeth N Bocking, Essex. he ix t° On the '26th ult., in Burton-street, Margaret, relict o f t • i daughter of the late R. Hitchens, Esq., of Poltair, Cornwall s. Walter Trey e lyan, Esl., of Nether Witton, Northumberla.i!.df, lit:. On the 24th ult., Andrew George, only surviving on o s ocl Rev. Wm. Ludlow, of Brixton-hill, Surrey, ' aged eleve . n Ye w. nine months. On the *2Sth ult., in Charles-street, St. James's. J. Howell,L2., of Wickham-place, N....V1:t1Ld.._....,..,,,.. Ken t• se, London: Printed and Published by :UMW° YOLIN6/e ~,,u nt i i n th , ." 112, Strand, at The Sun, Office, No. 112, Strayed, of Middlesex.—Monday, April 2, 1838. Elisabeth, wife rEHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1838.